Officially, Meghan Markle deleted her Instagram when her relationship with Prince Harry started to get serious.

Smart move, as exchanging social media for a royal title is objectively a pretty sweet deal, especially as the internet seems to become more of a cesspool of narcissism and bigotry every day.

But Meghan went from a relatively unknown actress to one of the most famous women on the planet overnight, so she must be curious as to what the trolls and sycophants of the world wide web have to say about her.

No. 68 BYU men’s tennis played a hard-fought match but fell 4-3 to No. 66 UNC-Wilmington at the USTA National Campus on Monday.

“We fought down to the last man,” BYU head coach Brad Pearce said. “We have a lot to be proud of between our two matches. We’ll learn from the lessons that were taught at every position in both matches and move forward from here looking through the windshield rather than the rearview mirror.”

BYU (3-1) came out strong in doubles to claim the point over UNC-Wilmington (1-1) with wins in No. 2 and No. 3 doubles. Duo Matthew Pearce and Mateo Vereau earned a 6-2 win over Agustin Savarino and Daniel Groom. Teammates Sam Tullis and Ben Gajardo defeated Bruno Caula and Michael Morphy, 6-3, to move the Cougars 1-0 into singles play.

The No. 1 doubles match between BYU’s Sean Hill and Jeffrey Hsu and UNC-Wilmington’s Michael Copeland and Cole Groetsch was suspended at 4-3.

The Hawks fought back and earned their first point as Vereau fell to Austin Hussey, 6-1, 6-4, in No. 3 singles. In the No. 6 spot, Pearce lost to Davide Innocenti, 6-3, 6-3, tying the dual match at 2-2.

UNC-Wilmington earned its third point and a 3-2 advantage as Copeland defeated Tullis, 6-4, 6-2, in No. 4 singles.

The Cougars battled back to tie the match at 3-3 when Gajardo topped Morphy, 6-0, 2-6, 6-3, in the No. 5 singles spot.

The match victory was decided in the No. 2 singles spot. Hsu and Groom battled back and forth until Groom clinched the win with 5-7, 6-0, 6-4 win.

BYU battles No. 1 Wake Forest on Friday, Jan. 25, at 5 p.m. EDT, as it competes in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend. The next day the Cougars play the winner of the match between No. 26 Memphis and No. 37 Old Dominion. That match will be played at either 2 p.m. or 5 p.m., depending on who wins.

Joey Lawrence will appear on this season of Celebrity Big Brother, and fans can’t wait to see what the show has in store.

Lawrence is an actor, musician, and host. He’s best known for his role as Joey Russo in Blossom and starred in the series Brotherly Love with his real-life brothers.

What else should you know about him? Read on.

1. He Says He’s ‘Not Sure If He Can Win the Show’

In a recent interview with EW, Lawrence said of Big Brother, “I’m not sure I can win the show… I don’t have a strategy. I’m not very familiar with it.”

Will he cut corners in order to win? Lawrence says he won’t. “I’m not going to be devious to win the game. I can’t do it. It doesn’t come naturally to me. So if I can’t win on honest merit, then I’m not going to win it, I guess.”

Joey reportedly describes himself as a “reactive guy” who is “pliable to the situation”. And as EW points out, being adaptable is a great characteristic of a game show contestant.

Another ET interview stated that Joey’s brothers gave him “flak” for joining the cast of Celebrity Big Brother. Joey explained, “They just started snickering, you know, like brothers do. Like, ‘Oh my god, dude, Oh my god, dude’… But that’s all right.”

2. He Rose to Fame in the ’80s

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Lawrence rose to fame in the 80s, starring as Joey Russo in the TV series Blossom.

Joey was born in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. From 1995 to 1996, he appeared in the TV show Brotherly Love, which started on NBC and then moved to The WB.

After appearing on Dancing with the Stars in 2006, Lawrence went on to star in the TV series My Fake Fiance with Melissa Joan Hart. In 2010, he appeared alongside Hart in the ABC Family Sitcom Melissa & Joey.

3. He Appeared on ‘Dancing with the Stars’

In 2006, Lawrence appeared on Dancing with the Stars. He placed third overall.

Lawrence was paired with professional dancer Edyta Śliwińska. In an interview with Media Village about his stint on the reality competition show, Lawrence said, “It was a great time. Those 16 and 17-year-old girls who were screaming out of control now have a different vibe. They’re looking forward to seeing my movies and me coming back to TV at some point.”

Lawrence went on to say that the support he received from his fans had been “overwhelming.”

In 2007, Lawrence starred as Billy Flynn in the Broadway hit, “Chicago”. The appearance marked his Broadway debut.

Lawrence starred in the show from May 4 to June 17. Although he had never appeared on Broadway, he did record two solo albums prior to that point. The first was Blossom: Joey Lawrence. The second was Soulmates.

]]>https://usa-today-news.com/news/joey-lawrence-celebrity-big-brother-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/feed/0Tamar Braxton Kids & Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Knowhttps://usa-today-news.com/news/tamar-braxton-kids-family-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/
https://usa-today-news.com/news/tamar-braxton-kids-family-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/#respondMon, 21 Jan 2019 22:42:25 +0000https://usa-today-news.com/news/tamar-braxton-kids-family-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/Tamar Braxton is one of the biggest names in show business. The 41-year-old started her career as a musician and has since forayed into reality television, songwriting, and a variety of other media platforms.

This year, Braxton will be competing on Celebrity Big Brother. And as she makes a nightly appearance on our television screens, some of us may become curious about her personal life. How many children does Braxton have? What else do we know about her family?

Tamar Braxton is the mother to Logan Vincent Herbert, who is 5-years-old.

When she opened up to CocoaFab’s blogger C Nikky about motherhood just after Logan was born, she said, “Logan is everything. He is so yummy… Immediately everything changes but immediately you don’t fall in love, but I heard that you do but they lied. Just like you fall in love with a little person, it’s just like that.”

In June, Braxton and her estranged husband, Vincent Herbert, took Logan to Disneyland for his fifth birthday.

On social media, Braxton exclaimed, “I’m so grateful for @waltdisneyworld… You never know what you TRULY need until God provides it,” she exclaimed. “I thought this was just my baby’s 5th bday!! It’s been God at work.”

Although Logan has appeared in a few of his mother’s Instagram photos, she doesn’t often post about him on social media, keeping hin clear of the spotlight.

Tamar Braxton was born in Severn, Maryland, in 1977. She is the youngest of the Braxtons’ six children.

As sisters, Toni, Traci, Towanda, Trina, and Tamar signed a record deal with Arista Records in 1989. At the time, Tamar was just 12. When she was 14, the girl group released their first single, “Good Life”.

Braxton Family Values is a series that features the lives of the Braxton sisters, along with their mother, Evelyn. The show has been running on WE tv since 2011, and is still going strong today.

For a stint from 2012 to 2017, Tamar also had a spin-off series with her ex-husband, Herbert.

3. She Was Married to Music Producer Darrell ‘Delite’ Allamby

In 2001, Braxton married her first husband, music producer Darrell Allamby. The two met in 2000 while Allamby worked on Braxton’s debut album “Money Can’t Buy Me Love”. They ended up divorcing in 2003.

According to It Is Weird, Allamby has worked on a number of hit …read more

For those who might be unsettled by the “Canadian Tire terrorist” Rehab Dughmosh, it is far more instructive, and certainly reassuring, to look to her family.

Dughmosh last week pleaded guilty to three terrorism-related charges in her bizarre failed golf-club and butcher knife-swinging attack in June of 2017 at a Toronto Canadian Tire store and a fourth charge for an earlier failed attempt in 2016 to fly to Syria to join ISIL.

Both the attack and the flight that preceded it could have been much more serious had a brother and her husband not alerted the authorities and, in the husband’s case, also confiscated two bags from her, unaware she had secreted the butcher’s knife and a bow in her clothes, as she headed out that early summer day.

As a result, she had to improvise at the store.

The two were in the midst of divorce proceedings, and living in the same apartment, but separately.

When husband Anas Hanafy opened the bags and found her makeshift weapons stockpile — tools such as a hammer, archery arrows, metal BBQ skewers, straws with screws glued to the tops, knives, scissors, a shovel turned into a claw — he phoned her parents back in Syria and both the RCMP and then Toronto police, concerned she might hurt herself or someone else.

Only then did he learn what she had done at Canadian Tire.

Now 34, Dughmosh is one hot mess, almost certainly seriously mentally ill — she had duct taped most of the electrical outlets in the apartment to stop the “electric wave,” believed the government was spying on her and that people were even stealing her hair style, though how on Earth they could see it given her omnipresent full-face veil remains a mystery — and also drawn to violent religious extremism.

Once an ordinarily observant Sunni Muslim, she now wears the niqab virtually full-time, as indeed she did in court Monday, and until her arrest was glued to her phone, watching violent suicide bombings and ISIL propaganda videos.

An artist’s impression of Rehab Dughmosh’s court proceedings.

She even made four videos of her own, in which she acknowledged an affiliation with ISIL, spoke of “revenge for Muslims” and referred to non-believers as “kaffir,” an Arabic slur for infidels.

On June 3, 2017, Dughmosh walked to Scarborough’s Cedarbrae Mall near her home (encountering Hanafy as she left, who was returning from taking their two kids to a park and promptly grabbed the two bags she was carrying) and popped into the Canadian Tire, unfurled her homemade black and white ISIL banner and tied a black bandana with the ISIL symbol around her head.

Then she charged a group of store employees, shouting “This is for ISIS” and swinging first the golf club and then the knife. The employees and a customer subdued her, and no one was seriously hurt.

One brother, Khalid, who lives in Germany, had called the RCMP in April 2016, when Dughmosh was flying to Istanbul, with the intention of going on to Syria to join ISIL.

Olivia Ambrose, who is called by the nickname “Liviy,” is a 23-year-old project manager and travel enthusiast who disappeared in Boston after a night out dancing with friends.

Now those friends, Boston Police, and Ambrose’s family have mobilized an effort to find Ambrose, who works for a company called Toast, Inc. and once studied in Scotland.

A Facebook page has been created to find Olivia Ambrose. She is from Wenham and most recently was living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood in Boston.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Ambrose Was Last Seen at a Boston Bar

Olivia Ambrose

According to the Facebook page devoted to finding her, Olivia “Liviy” Ambrose was last seen “leaving Hennessy’s Bar on Saturday January 19th around 11pm. The bar is located on Union Street near Faneuil Hall, Haymarket and Govenment Center.” MassLive.com reports that Olivia was out with friends, including members of a volleyball team she played on.

Specifically, says the Facebook page, Ambrose was last seen around 11:04 p.m. on January 19, 2019 “with unidentified white male. Wearing a white/beige/grey coat with a red corduroy dress and doc martins.”

Friends of Olivia Ambrose , trying to help find here. She’s been missing since Saturday night, when she walked out of Hennessy’s in Boston pic.twitter.com/l7e95JHO4G

— Bill Shields (@ShieldsWBZ) January 21, 2019

The page urges: “If you remember seeing this girl or have any information please contact police or her sister Francesca Ambrose at 978-578-5702.”

The Boston Police Department has issued a missing person’s alert in Ambrose’s case. It provides a quick summation of information that is similar to the Facebook page, saying, “The Boston Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in efforts to locate Olivia Ambrose who was last seen in the area of 25 Union Street, Boston at about 10:00 p.m. on January 19, 2019. Ambrose is described as a 24-year-old white female, about 5’2”, with blue eyes and curly brown hair. She was last seen wearing a red corduroy dress under a long white and grey coat. Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Olivia Ambrose is advised to contact 911 or District A-1 (Downtown) Detectives at (617) 343-4248.”

Journalist Michele McPhee wrote on Twitter that, according to sources, Ambrose’s cell phone later pinged that night inside an Uber in Charlestown.

2. The Ambrose Facebook Page Has Shared Photos of a Man It Is Seeking Information About But Her Sister Wrote That He Was Identified

The Facebook page devoted to finding Ambrose shared the above photos with the comment, “Does anyone recognize this man or logo on his shirt? He was last seen at Hennessy’s in Boston with a woman who is now missing. If you have any info, please contact Francesca Ambrose at 978-578-5702. PLEASE SHARE TO HELP.”

MassLive reports that Ambrose has a twin sister named Francesa who, along with a friend named Kate Collins, told the publication they had seen Olivia around 10 p.m. as they all danced inside the bar.

]]>https://usa-today-news.com/news/olivia-ambrose-missing-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/feed/0Alby Rydes: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Knowhttps://usa-today-news.com/news/alby-rydes-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/
https://usa-today-news.com/news/alby-rydes-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/#respondMon, 21 Jan 2019 22:26:45 +0000https://usa-today-news.com/news/alby-rydes-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/Alby Rydes, a porn star, was rumored to have had NBA star Iman Shumpert’s baby after she had a threesome with the former Knick and his wife, Teyana Taylor. The completely unfounded rumor, which has been strenuously denied by Taylor, first appeared on the Instagram account for a gossip blog named The Neighborhood Talk.

Taylor has responded to the unfounded rumor by saying that she had never met Alby Rydes, 28. As the rumors spread across social media, Taylor deleted her Instagram page. Many users took that to mean there might be some credibility to the rumor. Taylor wrote on Twitter, “I’ve never seen/touched that girl in my life. 2. My page is gone because I’m upset at @defjam for not dropping my damn “WTP” video on time, per usual. 3. It’s really sad that lies are entertained so much than the truth. 4. Iman is not dum he know I’d kill him.”

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Alby Rydes Has Called the Rumors ‘Fake’

Alby Rydes has also said that there is no truth to the gossip. On her Instagram story, Rydes said that the rumors were “fake” and that “time is too short to get caught up in empty drama.” Rydes goers on saying, “Whoever is spreading these rumors just know ITS FAKE NEWS AND IT AINT HIS BABY.” Rydes says the father of her baby is “the man I was dating and that main aint Iman.” Posts on Rydes’ Instagram page show that she gave birth to her baby in November 2018.

In a follow-up post, Rydes wrote, “If people were this quick to follow their dreams and be positive they would be somewhere in life but instead they here entertaining fake rumors and reading negativity.”

According to Rydes’ IMDb page, Rydes is a native of Miami and is of Cuban and Albanian heritage. Although Rydes herself says she is from Albania. She began making pornographic movies in 2013 for studios such as Evil Angel, Bang Productions and Wicked Pictures. That page gives Rydes’ 25 movie credits. In 2015, Rydes was a nominee for Cutest Newcomer at the annual Adult Video News Awards.

Rydes maintains a YouTube channel named Rydin’ With Alby that she says features, “Pizza, Booty & Photoshoots. Makeup Tutorials. cooking With Me. Major Money & Moves and many more…”

3. Rydes Says the First Thing She Looks for in a Man Is if He Has a Blunt in his Hand

]]>https://usa-today-news.com/news/alby-rydes-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/feed/0Kato Kaelin, Celebrity Big Brother: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Knowhttps://usa-today-news.com/news/kato-kaelin-celebrity-big-brother-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/
https://usa-today-news.com/news/kato-kaelin-celebrity-big-brother-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/#respondMon, 21 Jan 2019 22:22:06 +0000https://usa-today-news.com/news/kato-kaelin-celebrity-big-brother-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/Another season of Celebrity Big Brother is here, and Kato Kaelin is ready to put it all on the line for the chance to win $250,000.

Kaelin will be up against a cast of celebrities that includes Tamar Braxton, Joey Lawrence, Dina Lohan, and Anthony Scaramucci.

How will he fare locked in a household with a group of celebs? Will OJ Simpson come up?

Read on.

1. He Gained Fame During the O.J. Simpson Trial

Kaelin is an actor, and radio and television personality. He rose to fame after being a witness during the O.J. Simpson murder case.

In 1994, Kaelin was staying as a guest on Simpson’s estate in Rockingham. He was on the compound the night of the murders, and witnessed some of Simpson’s movements around the time of the slayings.

According to an archived People article, Kaelin was reported to be friends with both Simpson and Nicole at the time of their death.

For those who think Kaelin may not be ‘famous’ enough to appear on Big Brother, think again. According to one poll, referenced by Vanity Fair, 74% of Americans could identify Kaelin at a time when only 25% could identify Vice President Gore.

Fans may be excited to learn that the subject of OJ Simpson may come up during this season of Big Brother. Kaelin recently told EW, “I’ve done so many interviews over the years, I have no problems answering questions about that. You know, it’s so, to me, boring, the O.J. It’s not who I am, and it’s something that obviously happened in my life, but if they have a question that they want me to answer or something that I can answer, I have no problem with that.”

Kaelin has landed himself on the right show. Apparently, he’s a huge Big Brother fan and has been watching the show for years.

In an interview with ET, Kaelin said that he’s been wanting to be a contestant on the reality competition since 2000.

Kaelin made his adoration for the show clear in the interview, referencing a guest from the first season. During season one, Keshia Knight Pulliam had to do a last-minute exit from the BB house because she said her breast milk supply was getting low, and she needed to take care of her baby’s needs.

In his interview with ET, Kaelin said, “The good news is I’m not lactating, so…”

How does he plan to win? In a recent clip, he said that his game plan is to make everyone love him.

3. He Has Appeared in a Number of TV Movies

Since 2015, Kaelin has appeared in a number of TV Movies, like Guest House Rent, Weird Bizarre and Psychotic, and The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time.

Kaelin was in college when he forayed into hosting, creating his own show called The Gameshow on the campus television TV station.

]]>https://usa-today-news.com/news/kato-kaelin-celebrity-big-brother-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/feed/0Acclaimed poet Ian Williams says first novel ‘Reproduction’ is like a childhttps://usa-today-news.com/news/acclaimed-poet-ian-williams-says-first-novel-reproduction-is-like-a-child/
https://usa-today-news.com/news/acclaimed-poet-ian-williams-says-first-novel-reproduction-is-like-a-child/#respondMon, 21 Jan 2019 22:21:39 +0000https://usa-today-news.com/news/acclaimed-poet-ian-williams-says-first-novel-reproduction-is-like-a-child/Ian Williams says “Reproduction” is the closest thing he has to a child.

The Vancouver-based writer has spent six years swaddling his first novel in the cocoon of his care as he unspooled a labyrinthine tale of boy meets girl, meets cross-cultural chosen family.

With “Reproduction” (Random House Canada) set to hit bookstores Tuesday, Williams said he feels like a parent watching his toddler waddle off into kindergarten — torn between the impulse to protect his creation from the outside world, and the pride of knowing his novelistic offspring can survive on its own.

“Already, I feel him spinning away into other social circles, and not just in the little warm embrace of my love,” said Williams.

Williams, a 39-year-old creative writing professor at the University of British Columbia and a Griffin Poetry Prize trustee, said each of the books he’s written can be read as a chapter in the progress of a life.

With his debut poetry collection, “You Know Who You Are,” in his early 20s, Williams said he was coming to terms with his identity as a black man. That was followed by his 2011 Danuta Gleed Literary Award-winning short story collection “Not Anyone’s Anything,” in which Williams said he was letting go of the adolescent self-delusion that he was special.

In “Personals,” shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize, he explored the search for external connection through poetic riffs on the personal ad.

When he first set out to write “Reproduction” in his early 30s, Williams said he was seized by a fascination with how children come into the world, a symptom of the “biological clock” that is often ascribed to women, but he believes affects men too.

At its core, Williams said, “Reproduction” is a love story. It begins with a simple geometry problem: “If two people travelling in a straight line meet in a hospital room, is that a vertex or an intersection?”

But this isn’t your average one-plus-one romantic equation. His artistic goal, embedded in the book’s “biology,” was to write a novel that could “reproduce itself” with a plot that sprawls exponentially outwards.

Let’s break down the math.

The novel is comprised of four parts, set in the multicultural petri dish of Brampton, the Toronto suburb where Williams was raised, over four decades between the late 1970s and the present day.

In part one, Felicia, a sober-minded teenager from a small island nation, and Edgar, the listless heir to a German family fortune, meet in the hospital room where their mothers lay dying. The first act of their relationship unfolds over 23 subsections — which, as Williams explains, is the number of chromosome pairs contained in human DNA — culminating in the birth of their son, Armistice, or Army.

In part two, Felicia and a teenaged Army move in with Oliver, a Portuguese divorcee, and his children, including the sexually precocious Heather. The four (two times two) central characters become unrelated relatives over 16 (four times four) subsections, until violence upends the family dynamic.

Part three follows the fallout over 256 (16 times 16) subsections told …read more